by Demon Instructor (Huang Zhangjin)
Unsaved Memories
- "Nanjing Nanjing" and "Rabe's Diary" After the View
If a movie is made, the purpose is to make the Japanese firmly remember the Nanjing Massacre The cruelty of the Holocaust and a strong sense of shared destiny with the victims, I think, the best way is to use naturalistic realistic methods to show all the tragedies in the Holocaust, the Japanese soldiers are played by Chinese, the Chinese victims, It is played by Japanese actors.
Two years ago, a reporter from Kyodo News, Shin Saito, told me when we were chatting about history that Japan had made such a film in the 1990s, and he was particularly impressed by the fact that he thought the most beautiful in Japan was also the one he admired the most. An actress who sacrificed herself in front of the camera at three o'clock. He couldn't remember the name of the movie, so he wrote the actress's name on a napkin. Of course, he didn't think it was a good movie, because the Chinese played by the Japanese and the Japanese soldiers played by the Chinese were too fake in his opinion.
It's a pity that the napkin with the name of the most beautiful star in Saito's heart, when I think about it, I don't know where it was thrown away. Otherwise, when "Nanjing Nanjing" and "Rabe Diary" were released at the same time , you can entrust your friends in Japan to help you find it.
Thinking of this unseen film, I noticed that Lu Chuan repeatedly emphasized that he hoped that "Nanjing Nanjing" could be released in Japan. I can't think of it, this film takes the Japanese soldier Kadokawa as the main point of view, and he can't wait to tell his wishes, is it paving the way for the future staring at the Japanese box office market, or is it to educate the Japanese?
As far as my personal impression of "Nanjing Nanjing" and "Rabe's Diary" is concerned, although Lu Chuan's works are rubbish, but they really appear in Japan, at least his name will be remembered in discussions and disputes, congratulations to him As for the latter, I think he really regarded the Japanese as Chinese, lost his historical memory, needed him for education, and underestimated the seriousness of the Japanese in studying the Nanjing Massacre. Before him, Japan had filmed the bloodier Nanjing Massacre, and the Japanese version of Gao Yuanyuan had already made the sacrifice of smashing the most beautiful porcelain in front of you.
Before reading "Rabe's Diary", I scribbled down my feelings about "Nanjing Nanjing", and some people said that my devaluation of Lu Chuan's works was for the sake of "Rabe's Diary". This gentleman really thinks highly of me. The Germans are not going to ask me to take care of me. After reading "Rabe's Diary", I have to add one more sentence. The modeling is still quite full, compared to Lu Chuan's lack of talent but trying to pretend to be profound, far better than that, but in "Rabe Diary", the Jinling girl who played a big role is actually completely redundant. As for her brother who shot and killed her and tried to rape her The plot of the two Japanese soldiers and their successful escape is unbelievable to the point of hair-raising. However, the difference in the quality of the two films is not worth wasting ink and ink, and this is not my specialty. Let’s talk about history.
[Whose history, whose memory]
Actually, I am a senior news worker today, and I have to thank a Japanese "Hasegawa Koichi" (of course, he is more Chinese than Japanese), February 2000, The next day I went online, I saw his humiliating post that was reprinted everywhere. Out of anger, I wrote "Aren't We Inferior Nations" in a hurry, and it was reprinted crazily in the online world. Being recognized by countless strangers in an instant is such a positive encouragement. I quickly became an internet writer and then a journalist.
Since then, "Hasegawa Koichi" has appeared continuously. Although the insulting posts have become longer and longer, the level has skyrocketed. At the same time, since Hasegawa, Chinese netizens have become more and more discerning. Rereading history because of anger, as long as you are intellectually honest, you cannot be like me, from a "hatred of the Japanese and the youth" to a "traitor".
In "Aren't We Inferior Nations", I once said that I didn't know about the "Nanjing Massacre" before I was twelve years old. In fact, if I heard this word before, I would have thought that the Kuomintang massacred the communists at Yuhuatai , because I know from elementary school teachers that 300,000 communists were massacred in Yuhuatai.
As for the causes and consequences of Japan's war of aggression against China, if you pay more attention to the memoirs of important parties and think about it, I believe you will think that the entire Chinese official frame description of this is wrong: the all-out war between China and Japan that broke out in 1937 was not A premeditated war of aggression to destroy or fully annex China, even by 1945, Japan had no such idea. If you want to question me, I suggest that the easiest way is to buy a copy of Mr. Yu Tianren's "Military Staff". I don't recommend it because I wrote the preface for this book, but because it is the one I read. One of the best books ever written. I believe that there are many historians in China with a higher level than Yu Tianren. After all, Mr. Yu Tianren, who lives in Japan, is only studying history as an amateur, but the status of Chinese historians in the system determines that they can only be silent. Just like when I asked a professional researcher When a historian of the Nanjing Massacre looked at the number of victims, he pondered for a while and said, 300,000 is a political figure, and we should not discuss it.
It is a pity that Zhang Chunru, who lived in the United States, ignored a problem that should not be ignored in his writing about the Nanjing Massacre: In China, even the history of the so-called Xia Dynasty is not easy to be published publicly that is inconsistent with the official view, let alone such a sensitive modern history? She trusted the honesty of her mainland counterparts under official control, thinking that these research results were conclusive, and I think she should have felt the shame of this gullibility before she died.
I believe that most Chinese people will instinctively frown when they talk about Japanese middle school history textbooks. I have seen the version that is used the most in Japan. My personal feeling is that if it is used as a standard textbook in China, Chinese children will have a better grasp of it. Accurate and fair history. Remember the history textbook co-edited by China, Japan and South Korea? The only country where it is impossible to use it happens to be China. Even the Japanese right-wing textbook, which has been criticized by Chinese officials for a long time and whose actual usage is negligible, I think after reading it carefully, it is generally more fair and objective than the Chinese history textbooks I have read before. If the values of CCTV and the Global Times are the values that the Chinese government hopes to instill in the people, then it is actually quite appropriate to hand over the task of compiling Chinese history textbooks to Fusang Society. Besides, its vaguely anti-Western and predatory logic is not what the Chinese government wants to instill?
In the 1970s, when the mainland officials never mentioned the Nanjing Massacre, Japanese journalist Katsuichi Honda visited China many times and wrote several books about the Nanjing Massacre and the atrocities of the Japanese invaders. His first work "Journey to China" was serialized in "Asahi Shimbun". Compared with China's need, "People's Japan" published several critical articles, at least for readers to know more specific facts and truth, the effect is much better Bar?
If anyone wants to read only one book to understand the Nanjing Massacre, I personally recommend the "Nanjing Massacre" by the Japanese historian Tomio Tomo. ——By the way, it may be difficult for many Chinese people to accept that when China and Japan were arguing over the ownership of the Diaoyu Islands, most of the historical evidence found by China came from Mr. Inoue Kiyoshi’s contribution to reviewing historical materials. The mainland official likes to talk about the evidence that the Empress Dowager Cixi rewarded Sheng Xuanhuai with the Diaoyu Islands. I have not seen any historian stand up and say that the guy who claimed to be a descendant of Sheng Xuanhuai was dismantled 30 years ago. Admit that he is a liar.
Is China a country with a history? You see, in the past, it was only emphasized that the Kuomintang in Nanjing Yuhuatai massacred 300,000 Communist Party members, not to mention that the Japanese army massacred 300,000 Nanjing soldiers and civilians.
Lu Chuan is my same age, and his history education should be the same. It is said that he studied history for many years and did a lot of homework for this film. Presumably he should know that China is a country of selective forgetting and selective memory at all. How can the Japanese be qualified to compare with China, where do they still need his education.
Even if he selectively forgot the historical education he had received, from Wu Ziniu to Lu Chuan himself, he remembered all the twists and turns he encountered in the process of making films about the Nanjing Massacre, but he did not. Have you ever thought that a film reflecting the suffering history of its own people has to endure so many censorship and restrictions in China. Which nation's memory and view of history need to be saved? If the film successfully landed in Japan, wouldn't it just prove that it is the Chinese who need education, especially himself?
Chinese people especially like to cite a point of view in "Chrysanthemum and the Sword" to explain the Japanese attitude towards historical issues, that is, the Japanese are a nation with no guilt but only a sense of shame. Based on the results of this standard observation, if the observation and research objects are changed to Chinese, the conclusion will also be that the Chinese have no guilt but only a sense of shame.
You can see that Lu Chuan is very anxious to save, of course, only to save others, but he has no idea that he is not only one of the group without guilt, but also has no sense of shame. Therefore, on this issue that most touches Chinese people's emotions and hearts, his performance is too disgusting to me. Of course, Lu Chuan is just a work generally processed by a special system in China.
Not only is it impossible to educate the Japanese, but even the Japanese are deeply stimulated by the tragic movie scenes, and the Japanese work has already been done ahead.
[Saved by someone, no one saved]
I have to admit that before reading "Rabe's Diary", I never paid much attention to what was going on with the "International Committee of the Nanjing Safety Zone". Around 1987, I first came across a book devoted to the atrocities of the Japanese invaders in China. The Nanjing Massacre accounted for a considerable proportion. The words "International Committee of the Safe Zone" appeared repeatedly, but I clearly remember this inexplicable name. , The book has never been positively introduced. It only appeared when testifying. With the understanding of the world and history of a high school student at that time, it was completely impossible to imagine what it was all about.
For a long time, when the names of this institution and related people came up in front of me, I would subconsciously skip it, I am afraid that they are the only questions I am willing to take for granted and vaguely understand in my reading of the relevant history. I have vaguely defined it as, this is an international organization that originally existed in a corner such as a concession, but they jumped out in an emergency and played the role of a maintenance society. Its historical significance is mainly to make us The evidence for the accusations of atrocities by the Japanese army is more credible.
Later, I even quickly scanned or skipped the relevant texts in whole paragraphs, because the descriptions of the crimes of the Japanese army provided by this organization were always so understated in comparison, and there were almost no scenes that were particularly cruel and bloody. , the Japanese soldiers they describe through gritted teeth, sometimes even furtively, are quite far from the brutality of the Japanese soldiers that these books gave me. I am only drawn to descriptions of extreme cruelty, because only such atrocities can keep the fire of my intense hatred burning.
Therefore, I can understand very well that in order to maintain the intensity of hatred, the insulting articles of "Hasegawa Koichi" can only become more and more extreme. They began patiently torturing Chinese women with meticulous writing, first an unknown female anti-Japanese fighter, and then to martyr Zhao Yiman. I think they must have been devastated physically and mentally when they wrote these words. Here, I express my condolences to Hasegawa Hiroshi, whose hearts were once rich, kind and pure in order to save the national spirit, but eventually withered. They are the most unfortunate victims of a nation with no history and no memory, although their sacrifices have not saved the nation at all, and even made it more depraved and corrupted, losing its least kindness.
As long as you really want to know about the Nanjing Massacre, an organization like the "International Committee" is simply impossible to hide from your eyes and consciousness, even if it is to save the memory of our massacre, rather than emphasizing that we were saved by it. Always arrange it only as an unimportant circumstantial evidence of history.
I know that in the end, I still subconsciously refused to learn about this history in detail, just because a subconscious national pride made me unacceptable. At the moment of Nanjing’s destruction, the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the capital abandoned by the government, no Any attempt to organize an effort to save yourself, at this time, a group of white men who are superior to people, who don't even have any official background, as they have been in countless third world countries, are again saviors, and the Chinese are like any Even the most primitive African tribe, no matter how rich, how bossy, how impassioned he has been, can only be crowded under the angelic wings of a Westerner.
As long as you admit the history of the savior and the saved, you should know that you should be grateful, and this gratitude is the heaviest gratitude. ——The difference between the savior and the rescued is not only the difference between the strength of the country, the advanced and backward weapons, and even the possession of nuclear weapons can not change it in the slightest.——Some countries with nuclear weapons, her citizens still think today. Do everything possible to escape to those countries without nuclear weapons; until today, immigrants from third world countries, few immigrants from mainland China, lack the sense of power and the sense of participating in local politics. This difference is their own. The homeland is stereotyped difference.
If one day we will "blow up all the cities east of Xi'an", then the survivors east of Xi'an, like their ancestors 70 years ago, can only hide in those who secrete love at any time like spitting in China. Under the foreign devil's outstretched wings. This is our destiny as long as we seek "a nation of heroes", a "nation led by a group of heroes".
The "Safe Zone International Committee" is actually just an unregistered NGO organization. When I suddenly had to know this fact one day, I felt really embarrassed and angry; when I saw the tumultuous process of this organization on the film, my feelings were deeply hurt again.
The reason I can't accept that we have been saved is also because of the historical education I have received, it has always told us that we have always been saved by others, we were, are, and will be in the future. Therefore, we must be grateful and overcome. Everything is imaginary. We pretend to believe that we are saved, and try again and again to act as if we were nothing more than wrongful thinking, while those who claim that we will also be saved pretend to believe that we are grateful and put an end to wrongful thinking. When the "Safe Zone International Committee", an illegal NGO organization, had to acquiesce to the fact that it had saved 200,000 soldiers and civilians in Nanjing when it needed us to hate it - I'm really not used to accepting this fact. I'm used to pretending to be grateful every day. When I really need gratitude, I'm at a loss.
Although on this issue, the government has allowed Rabe to once save the Chinese, Lu Chuan shockingly chose to let Rabe kneel in front of the Chinese in "Nanjing Nanjing", making him ashamed of being powerless to save the Chinese, The Chinese people forgave him. "Nanjing Nanjing" seems to give the impression that in the end, only two of the 200,000 people survived, and those two were saved by the Japanese soldier Kadokawa.
God save me!
Who will save Lu Chuan?
[What kind of country, what kind of army]
In "Nanjing Nanjing", Lu Chuan's most diligent task is probably to explain the distortion of human nature by war. When it comes to this issue, let's take a look at the Japanese movie "Two Hundred and Three Heights". In the film, Lieutenant Xiao He, who was last killed in the Russo-Japanese War, was a primary school teacher who fanatically worshipped Russian culture before the war. When he joined the army to say goodbye to the children, he still did not forget to tell the children that we were fighting against the Russian army, but we could not have The view that the Russians are the enemy, Russia is a nation with a great soul like Tolstoy. Tolstoy once told us that all the world are brothers... However, after the tragic Lushun battle, Xiao He The lieutenant shot and killed a Russian prisoner of war in front of Nogi, and when his comrades condemned him angrily, he replied: All Russians are my enemies... For the soldiers on the front line, there is no face With the covenant, there is only life and death.
If a Japanese must be chosen to show the war’s distortion of human nature and the inner suffering of the parties involved in the Nanjing Massacre, I am afraid that Matsui Ishigen will be the best one among the famous Japanese. Of course, Lu Chuan's intelligence, knowledge and courage are far from enough to bring this war criminal who was hanged in Tokyo for the Nanjing Massacre on the screen.
From the very beginning, "Rabe's Diary" clearly refers to the culprit of the Nanjing Massacre as Prince Asaka Miyaji Hatohiko - he once represented Matsui Ishine as the commander of the Shanghai Expeditionary Force. Compared with the background of "Nanjing Nanjing" Wuwei, compared to the fact that Chinese media usually simplifies Ishigen Matsui as the culprit, makes people feel that it is attentive and serious in historical facts. However, in "Rabe's Diary", the kind and upright staff member next to Prince Hatohiko Asaka Miyako is suspicious and inconsistent with history, because the staff group is the most important organizer and instigator of a series of atrocities after the Japanese army captured Nanjing. A typical example is the chief of staff Yuuhiko, who was next to Prince Asaka Miyagihiko, who later arrogantly declared that I ordered everyone (in the name of the commander) indiscriminately, killing 300,000 prisoners in one fell swoop.
If the restraint and deployment of Matsui Ishine were not effective during the massacre, Matsui Ishigen's death was a bit wrong, because Matsui Ishigen only appeared during the ceremony of the Japanese army entering the city in Nanjing. At this time, the mass slaughter of prisoners of war had ended. Matsui had previously ordered the Japanese army not to be stationed in the city, but, Before the Nanjing War, after the Japanese army fought hard for 3 months to capture Shanghai, they prepared a "triumph division" for a time, and later changed it to "sweep the enemy near Shanghai and pursue the east of Suzhou and Jiaxing". However, he ordered the capture of Nanjing without authorization. He himself added fuel to the fire of the Japanese army's "Xia Ke Shang". The Japanese army with insufficient food would inevitably loot and kill on a large scale. This should have been what he expected. As such, Matsui Ishigen was sent to hang It might not be too wrong to die.
Matsui's last words to the visitors before being sent to the gallows are excerpted as follows, or worth reading:
the Nanjing incident, extremely shameful. After Nanjing entered the city, when I held a memorial ceremony, I proposed to sacrifice the dead Chinese together, but the subordinates below the chief of staff did not understand it, saying that it would affect the morale of the Japanese army. The division commander as the capital thinks so... Shortly after the consolation ceremony, I gathered everyone together and fired a stern face as the army commander. Asaka Palace was also present at that time, and Lieutenant General Yanagawa was also the commander of the Front Army. I said that the imperial power that had been established with great difficulty suddenly lost its luster due to the brutality of those soldiers. However, everyone laughed after that. What's more, the commander of a certain division even said, "That's for granted!" Therefore, I was the only one who fell into such an ending. Although I was alone, I could give the soldiers at that time more and more profound reflection. I am very happy. I thought, after all, this is the case, let me die like this.
Ishine Matsui and Masao Araki both sighed after the Nanjing Massacre that the Japanese army today is far inferior to the Japanese army during the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War. In fact, what is more important is that Japan at that time was a completely different country from the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War. What they praised was Japan that went all out in the era of "Brexiting Asia into Europe". At that time, Asia and Europe, Considered a symbol of barbarism and civilization in Japan, the Japanese army at that time deliberately presented itself as a civilized army that obeyed all international conventions. Japan in World War II has experienced the baptism of nationalism and nationalism. Not only has the entire Europeanization of the "Lumingguan Era" been swept away as a shame, but Japan has long since become the "heroic country" that "Unhappy China" aspires to. , the Japanese army is no longer a "literary" army.
What happened to the Nanjing military and civilians at that time. It was such an army that completely wiped out the "literary and artistic accent".
Kadokawa, created by Lu Chuan, still had a little bit of "literary and artistic accent" because he received a little westernized education, but this "literary and artistic accent" finally drove Jiao Chuan to commit suicide! Compared with "Two Hundred and Three Heights", Xiao He killed prisoners in the tragic war by worshipping Russian culture. Which "literary and artistic tone" is more credible? Of course, I thought that the post-war "literary and artistic tone" was much stronger than China's, and the human nature was more authentic and credible. Think about it, during the Sino-Vietnamese border conflict in the 1980s, a certain army from the northwest experienced a low-intensity war, and its harassment and lawlessness made the residents of the local government in Yunnan unbearable. To complete the task of defending the home and the country, you do not need the help of a certain army.
Regarding the defenders of Nanjing, one of my elders was in charge of the construction of the Nanjing defense project. In his memoirs, he basically used the twists and turns of his life to praise the greatness, glory and correctness. The only value is about the Battle of Nanjing, because He has a very close relationship with Tang Shengzhi, and I have not seen any historical materials about Tang Shengzhi's guarding of Nanjing's ins and outs.
In his memoirs, he said that Nanjing was in danger after the fall of Shanghai. Tang Shengzhizhi suddenly decided to keep Nanjing, just because Gu Boxu, a Buddhist master who had followed Tang for a long time, told Tang Jinyan that Nanjing has been a capital of emperors since ancient times. It was determined that the Japanese army would smash the city of Nanjing, so Tang Shengzhi, who had been sitting on the bench for a long time, was urged to strive for this inescapable achievement. At the National Defense Conference, everyone thought that Nanjing should not be defended, but Tang made a patriotic and generous speech, and no one dared to stand up to him. Tang Ruyuan became the commander of the Nanjing garrison. The army of the warlords defending the city.
During the defense of the city, Master Gu secretly built an altar in the garden of Tang Mansion, and prayed every day. However, the altar was hit by a bomb accidentally dropped by a passing Japanese machine at noon one day, and it shattered immediately. Tang returned home to see this. The scene was immediately stunned and unable to speak. Perhaps out of taboo, the memoir did not expressly say whether Tang Shengzhi suddenly left hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians to escape alone, whether it was just the bomb.
It is said that 20 years after Matsui Ishigen was hanged, his secretary visited Chiang Kai-shek. Jiang regretted crying and said he was sorry for Matsui Ishigen. I wonder if Chiang Kai-shek regretted letting Matsui Ishigen be hanged, but Tang Shengzhi was not sent to the gallows. shelf.
When Tang fled alone, he forgot to notify the Thirty-sixth Division guarding Nanjing's only escape route, the Jiangmen Gate. As a result, the thirty-sixth Division, which was ordered not to leave the city, clashed with the troops scrambling to escape. Lu Jianxiong, played by Liu Ye in Nanjing, is comparable to the small battle between the Japanese army, not to mention the fact that the guard troops and the escaped troops in the film are more powerful. ——The routed army used several tanks to defeat the guard troops to get out of the city. The number of dead on both sides should be no less than the sacrifices made by Nanjing after the fall of the city and resisting the Japanese army. Just as the people around the Yuanmingyuan looted before the British and French troops entered the park, before the Japanese army entered the city, the defeated defenders began to loot and set fire in the city.
Nine years ago, when I was writing "Aren't We Inferior Nation", my strong anger directed at the unsatisfactory China at that time and the unsatisfactory Chinese army at that time. After reading "The Diary of Rabe", I was still uneasy. In fact, without the advice of my colleagues who went with me, I also know that at that time, it was a pre-modern country and a pre-modern army that resisted Japan's modern military machinery. Jiangnan's manshoes are thousands of miles away, and they are already at the critical point of collapse before they are put into battle.
And the citizens of this country, the modern identity of the country, the modern identity of the nation, has gathered the centripetal cohesion arising from this, not an endogenous factor, but precisely from the Japanese invasion. More than 70 years after the Nanjing Massacre, the national identity of the Chinese people still has to be stimulated and maintained by the conspiracy imagination of the West that "dead me," and the conspiracy of Japan, which is about to destroy China again. Pain.
Today, any spiritual exploration of this country out of individual self-consciousness is not allowed. Where do we come from real history and real memory, let alone rescue.
When Lu Chuan frowned deeply, when we talked about righteousness impassively, it may be necessary to stroke our chests in the dead of night, and ask ourselves if "In this cruel era, I sang about freedom, and for those who fell down people who have prayed for forgiveness and sympathy."
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